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Bah, I dislike Health class when you hit that area. Luckily I'm still on Health and nutrition, and I'm enjoying it while I can. I like the teacher, he's not stupid or anything, but he's a die-hard Christian (I've heard passing remarks about Evolution and how christians are "opressed")
and I know he's going to go off on that unit. Luckily most people don't pay attention enough to catch the stabs at abortion, so he might end up preaching to the walls.

She should not be bringing her personal beliefs into class at all, let alone influencing her students with these beliefs. Isn't there some kind of rule about that? Or is it just a thing my teachers do out of respect?
My "health" teacher invited a teenage mother in to talk to us and she made it seem like it was a game.

Honestly, I lost all faith in most sex education in seventh grade when all they talked about was heterosexual, PIV sex. Even the comprehensive kind taught in my city didn't have anything about homosexual sex. Sure, I learned how to have safe sex if I were to ever date a pre-op/non-op transwoman, but there was nothing about how to have safe lesbian sex.

As for your teacher, you should report her to administrators. Teachers aren't supposed to inject their opinions into a lecture based around the facts, at the very least without clarifying, "This is my opinion and by no means a part of the lesson".



Ha ha. I tested out of health and the textbook we used to study for the test had two paragraphs about homosexuals and talked about us like we were aliens. It was hilarious. Health classes are the places to find extremely outdated textbooks, which is incredibly ironic because, of all the textbooks you would have in a school, those should be the ones that are updated (and therefore replaced) the most.

rolleyes Yeah. The bacon your teacher ate for breakfast that morning had a beating heart, until it was brutally taken. Bet she didn't think twice about it. And unlike fetuses, they actually have feelings.

It's hilarious when pro-life people are meat eaters, or pro death penalty, but still pretend life is somehow "sacred". And c'mon. A cockroach has a heartbeat. But it doesn't have feelings.

Like she said, she ended up saying some other choice things, so I would assume it was probably out of line. I did the same kind of thing, but not about abortion, I argued and yelled at our principal about the dress code & got 3 days in school, but he got me on the yelling & being disrespectful, not my actual opinion.

My sex ed was ok. It was a little on the "abstinence" side, but they didn't ignore sex either. They talked about condoms ("But don't do it.") they talked about pills ("But don't do it."), and even discussed spermicides & sponges ("But please, don't do it."). We also had those "Baby think it over." When I got pregnant, that awful thing was all I could think of and BAM, my decision was made, lol. They discussed adoption & very very briefly touched on abortion, but considering how conservative my school system was, I think they did better than what you other girls are mentioning. They didn't exactly portray it positively, but they didn't say "omg you'll go to hell if you do that" either. They just said it was an extreme measure. Which is pretty much true. It wasn't until my high school senior speech class that I really got into it w/ another student. There was a girl in my class that was adopted and was born to a teenage mother. And all she kept saying was "What if I had been aborted?? My mom chose not to, and now I have a great life!" And I wish I had known as much about the foster system/adoption proceedings as I do now. I would have laid the smack down. I was against having one myself at the time, but I argued that if we made it illegal, women were still going to do it and they would be unsafe. That it was better to protect the life of the mother than risk losing both. My teacher for that class was very openly conservative, but she was SO respectful, she loved that we all were passionate about our beliefs. She was pretty rad.

Maybe this is because my mom was a teenager when she had me, so I have a different experience witht he whole teenage parenthood thing, but I wish that they brought in children of teenage mothers to talk how it effected their life.